San Antonio College Library

This six-volume set contains programs about the ancient world and the legacy it has left us. Computer graphics and animation illustrate how historical sites of ancient civilizations once appeared, and recent film footage shows the present states of the extant structures. Historians and authorities provide commentary and analysis.

Chronicles two hundred years in the history of Wall Street, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the late twentieth century, emphasizing the events and personalities that have given the market its unique character, and discussing the power it wields in the world's economies.

This title tells the technological transformation of financial markets. It helps readers go beyond the numbers to see how the technology has become responsible for managing modern markets.

"The Failure of Wall Street analyzes how and why Wall Street fails, and what can be done to rectify the failures. After a short discussion of Wall Street's role in raising capital, granting corporate and personal advice, managing risk, and acting as a trusted fiduciary financial analyst, Erik Banks explores the dramatic failures that have occurred in each of theses areas, using case studies and examples to illustrate the nature and extent of the problems....

John Man travels the entire length of the Great Wall and across two millennia to find the truth behind the legends. Along the way, he delves into the remarkable and complex history of China--from the country's tribal past, through the war with the Mongols, right up to the modern day when the Great Wall is once more a commanding emblem of China, the resurgent superpower.

Tells the story of Charles Dow and Edward Jones, financial writers who came together to formulate the Dow Jones Industrial Average and to start a company with launched the Wall Street Journal.

Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Historian Steve Fraser frames his analysis around the roles of four iconic...

Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by a mass layoff, a thumb drive, and a rocket-scientist-cum-analyst...

The author "draws on diaries, private letters, memoirs, and reportage" to illuminate "how the getting and spending of Wall Street are inextricably linked with America's national character."--Jacket.